To the Editors: Joshua Hammer’s otherwise highly readable review of Steven Press’s Blood and Diamonds: Germany’s Imperial Ambitions in Africa [NYR, November 18, 2021] perpetuated some misconceptions about the role of Africans in the history of Namibia and of colonialism more generally. Regarding Nama chief Josef Frederiks, Hammer notes that his “European name was probably […]
Source : The Herero Genocide
